Nili Mirsky

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Nili Mirsky ( Hebrew נילי מירסקי, also transcribed as Nilly Mirsky ; December 3, 1943 in Rechovot , Palestine - January 30, 2018 ) was an Israeli literary translator .

Life

Nili Mirsky was born in Rechovot in 1943 and grew up in Tel Aviv , where she also studied literature at Tel Aviv University . In Munich she did her doctorate in German, French and Russian literature and after her return to Israel taught literature at the University of Tel Aviv.

She translated from German, French and Russian into Hebrew, best known as a translator of Buddenbrooks and other works by Thomas Mann , but also of Walter Benjamin and ETA Hoffmann as well as Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy . Other authors she has translated include Maxim Gorki , Nikolai Gogol , Vladimir Nabokov , Iwan Turgenew , Isaak Babel and Anton Chekhov . In individual cases Mirsky also translated from Hebrew into German; so she was on the translation of the first published in Germany novel by Amos Oz (dt. titles Nobody stays alone ) involved.

Mirsky has received several awards for her work; Among other things, she received the Israel Prize for Translation in 2008 and, posthumously, the German-Hebrew Translation Prize for the target language Hebrew in 2018 for her life's work, in particular for Thomas Mann's translation of the confessions of the impostor Felix Krull into Hebrew.

Nili Mirsky died at the end of January 2018 at the age of 74 from complications from cancer .

Fonts (without translations)

  • Narrative treatment of ideological problems in Čechov's work . Munich 1975
  • Anthologie de nouvelles israéliennes contemporaines . Gallimard, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-07-073582-6 (selection and introduction)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Translator Nili Mirsky dies , israelnetz.com, January 30, 2018, accessed on July 18, 2018
  2. ^ Israel Prize for Literature Awarded to Ida Fink, Tuvya Ruebner and Nili Mirsky , haaretz.com, February 26, 2008, accessed on July 18, 2018
  3. ^ German-Hebrew translator award for Anne Birkenhauer and Nili Mirsky , buchmarkt.de, July 16, 2018, accessed on July 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Mirsky, Nili
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli literary translator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Rechovot , Palestine
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2018